<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table summary="layout table" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td width="800"><p><strong>Hey Folks,</strong></p><p><strong>I just demanded emergency action</strong> from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary Tom Vilsak to stop the overuse of antibiotics and slow the spread of resistant bacteria in our communities. You can join me in taking action by going to <a href="http://cu.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2831">Consumers Union's website and send your own message.</a></p><p>The Centers for Disease Control released its superbug Threat Report in September,2013. <a title="Threat Assessment" href="http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0916-untreatable.html">Read the summary and go deeper here</a>.</p><p>Frontline just ran the first in its two part series on the threat of drug resistance: Watch <a title="Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/">"Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria."</a> Then read <a title="Antibiotics can't keep up -- we have to do something!" href="http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239247134/antibiotics-cant-keep-up-with-nightmare-superbugs">NPR's interview with the lead reporter </a>and <a title="Learn about the special threat from NDM1" href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/11/10-031110/en/">this interview with an international medical expert</a> on the special problem of MDN1.</p><p>I'm worried. Everyone must do their part. We all must be more careful about demanding antibiotics when we don't need them, but a national action must start at the top. Join me today by sending a <a href="http://cu.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2831">quick message at ConsumersUnion</a>, the policy division of Consumer Reports.</p><img height="1" width="1" alt="" id="fb0ba8b0-9af9-46b6-bdcd-fd43d591202b" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0BE3A5F9-16CC-47DA-8B45-F9FC1B28C792@att.net"><div>Regards, Mark </div></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>